(Kurz) Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
(Go) Resident in Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
(Sessler) Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
(Kaer) Medical Student, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
(Larson) Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
(Bjorksten) Clinical Research Scientist, Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Received from the Thermoregulation Research Laboratory, Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, and the Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia. Submitted for publication February 13, 1995. Accepted for publication April 19, 1995. Supported by the Joseph Drown and Max Kade Foundations and National Institutes of Health grant GM49670. Dr. Kurz is the 1994-96 Augustine Scholar. Ohmeda, Inc., Mallinckrodt Anesthesia Products, Inc., and Augustine Medical, Inc. donated equipment and supplies. The authors do not consult for, accept honoraria from, or own stock or stock options in any anesthesia-related company.
Address correspondence to Dr. Sessler: Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Third and Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California 94143-0648. Address electronic mail to: sessler@vaxine.ucsf.edu.